Human knowledge is the parent of doubt.

Many with trust, with doubt few, are undone.

Whatever natural right men may have to freedom and independency, it is manifest that some men have a natural ascendency over others.

Human knowledge is the parent of doubt.

Discernment is a power of the understanding in which few excel. Is not that owing to its connection with impartiality and truth? for are not prejudice and partiality blind?

Despair gives the shocking ease to the mind that a mortification gives to the body.

Weak men often from the very principle of their weakness derive a certain susceptibility; delicacy and taste which render them, in those particulars, much superior to men of stronger and more consistent minds, who laugh at them.